Eric Garner’s widow asks for help as she raises funds for movie about chokehold cop’s imagined prosecution

“I have no illusions about justice, and no film will ever bring my Eric back to me," Esaw Snipes-Garner wrote in connection to the funding of "American Trial." (Susan Watts/New York Daily News)

Eric Garner's widow is asking the public to chip in on the funding of a movie that would imagine how a state case against Officer Daniel Pantaleo would turn out in Garner's chokehold death.

"I have no illusions about justice, and no film will ever bring my Eric back to me," Esaw Snipes-Garner wrote in connection to the funding of "American Trial."

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Daniel Pantaleo holds Eric Garner in the chokehold that killed him on Staten Island in 2014. (New York Daily News)

But even still, Snipes-Garner — a supporter of the project who appears in the film — wrote, "I hope that if this film is made and we keep talking about this issue, that maybe the next victim might be saved, or that at least that victim's family may have a better chance to get justice for their loss."

The funding campaign ends Thursday morning and the goal is in sight.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the campaign for $50,000 has raised $45,573.

Though a Staten Island grand jury refused to charge Pantaleo for Garner's July 2014 death, director Roee Messinger is using real attorneys to explore how the case could've played out if the grand jury returned an indictment.

While a lot of people approached her with book and movie ideas, Snipes-Garner said Messinger "had a special idea."

"He wanted to make a film about the trial that should have followed Eric's death; a movie in which real lawyers will examine the actual witnesses who would have testified in court had the case been tried. No script, no actors, just the truth," she wrote.